Home-Made Floating Sifter

[sctoddc]

I saw one of these on eBay awhile back....starting price was $60.00...and under that it had reserve not met. I thought, man that would be so easy to make; so I did...lol. Parts list consisted of

5' stick of 1.25" PVC pipe
4 1.25" elbows
5' roll of 1/2" hardware cloth
8 2" hose clamps

First I cut the PVC into 15" lengths, glued the elbows in place.
I then layed the hardware cloth over the "frame" and cut a bit extra (you can see why I did this in the pics).
Folded the corners to fit, then tied it altogether with the hose clamps...done.

For less than $15.00, and about 45 minutes, I had the same thing this guy was selling. Hope maybe this can come in handy for some of you water hunters...thought I'd share.

Todd

Please excuse the messy work bench...LOL

[Chicago Mike]

Hello
How are you I hope your doing well . I would like to suggest a change in the way that you make the water sifter my change would make the sifter a little bit less heavy it's a simple piece that you use everyday and that is wire ties they don't scratch you when you are carrying it to the water and in the water and they won't rust and have to be replaced . I have made my own sifter and this is the best thing to use .

[DetectorOCD]

Not bad. I'm doing a non-metallic one out of a boogie board and a Garrett green classifier. HH

[stevemc]

You could also do the same thing with a floaty/noodle swim thing, and some plastic 1/2" mesh and plastic tie wraps. anyway you do it, it still isnt anywhere close to $60.

[FriscoT06]

Yes, I made mine with a pool noodle, a wire storage drawer, chicken wire and zip ties, about $15 too. I use mine for fossil sifting streams, but would love to use it for coins around old piers!

[idigjars]

I think this is a cool idea. Thank you for sharing all the pics and your time to post. Paul